Rough-Hewn Dorothy Canfield
(Continued From l’ttlerdu.)
b i nursiB.
Neal* CrHtrnileti. typical American
jmith, lives with his parent* In I nluu
gMUIII. n village near >«m York city. He Is
Ttllve In all kinds of outdoor sport* ami
at 22 la graduated from Columbia univer
sity . In I-'rnnre. Marl** Allen, about
Neale’s litre, lives with Iter American par
ents In tne home of Anna Etchrrgary. a
French woman. Marian's father Is foreign
htislncs* agent for an American firm,
.lennne Amlgnrenn Is an old French ser
vant In the Allen family. Martse atudira
music and French and win* a prise in a
tnusli-nl contest. Her mother airs, halv
ing her alone with her father. Nettle's
parents go to South America. After Sev
ern I months Ills mother return* while hi*
lather remains there on business. Neale
is in love with Martha YVentworth, whom
lie met at college. He takes a position
with a large lumber firm and gains rapid
iiromnlion, meanwhile laying plans tu
marry Mart ha a* soon ns possible.
I To studied the buyer, the situation,
tho sort of lumber needed. He sat up
nights going over the architect's
specifications; made up alternative
-rhed ules for spruce, oak, yellow pine
interior trim; clear or "grade A"
shingles. Then, delving deep in the
information he himself had collected,
he rechecked his figures, shaving the
margin of safety down till he was
sin e his bid would be lower than any
"tiler firm’s, and yet safe—no danger
"t leaving tho firm In the hole. The
l latca Lumber company could count
on its usual percentage of profit and
Neale Crittenden on his biggest com
mission yet, to add to the sum he
was laying aside for the new home.
When his bid was finally In tho con
tractor's hands, and routine office
and road work threatened to leave
him with time to think, Neale turned
hastily hack to his private deal with
grandfather. Grandfather's intimate
knowledge of all the possible timber
tracts in his region was a gold mine.
There was always wood lots in the
back valleys being sold for taxes, or
for very little herause, all the older
generation dying off. the western
heirs did not car© enough about the
little old family land holdings to come
east and investigate them. And even
If they had. knowing nothing of the
eastern or Indeed of any lumber mar
ket. they had no notion of the po
tential value of their inheritance.
Neale resolved to take part of his lit
tle savings for the use of the new
^^tousehoid, to buy up a few such wood
r lots, and turn them over at a big
profit. He felt sure of himself now,
sure he could swing such an opera
tion, and taking advantage of the La
bor day vacation, he went up to West
Adams to spend the week-end and
talk it over with Grandfather
Nothing ever changed in Grand
father’s home. Grandfather and
grandmother did not look so very
much older to Neale at 24 than they
had to the 8-year-old, having always
looked as old as possible. Jennie, the
hired girl, had aged more than the
old folks, he noted, as she went with
him up the steep stairs to the little
slant-ceilinged room now incredibly
low and tiny.
ue sai aown on nis imie-ooy oea,
r thousand forgotten memories stand
ing thick about him. He saw his
mother leading in the sleepy little
Neale, and now he saw that she was
young, young as Martha, so young
herself ... as young as Martha!
lie was the strong, purposeful, de
termined young man. sitting on the
bed and looking at that long-past
scene, and yet he was also the sleepy
little boy, feeling on his lips his
young mother's kiss. "Good night,
Neale." .Good-night, mother."
Ho went hastily down the stairs
and fell to talking business with
grandfather, talking to very good pur
pose. too. Today their projects went
far beyond the little tract of second
growth oak they had first thought of.
Grandfather, wily old spider, at the
center of a wide-flung well, kn*w
many tips which he was more than
willing to pass on to his favorite,
Xe.ile—Neale who had the other half
cf the combination and could sell at
_^gp prices what grandfather could
^rMjy it rock bottom. He was in fact
delighted with Neale's Ideas and the
energy with which Neale laid his
rlans. "Why, you're worth two of
your father!" he cried exultantly, as
they sat again, the next morning on
the porch and went Into do ils. "I
never could see whv Hau l didn't get
on better! He never seemed to care
enough about It, and by thunder, you
got to care If you’re going to get any
where." The old man paused, took
breath, and brought out. with an at
tempt to sound casual, "I’ve thought
sometimes 'twas your mother made
him that way. She's a nice girl, your
mother Is, Neale, but I never thought
she pushed your father the way she
ought to."
Neale felt so queer a disquiet at all
this, that he got up abruptly and
clapped on his hnt. All kinds of dif
ferent pieces were fitting together be
fore his eyes into some sort of a
pattern. He wanted to get away by
himself and look at it to see what
pattern it was.
"I'm going up to the far wood lot."
he said. “I can remember when th»
pines were Just coming In there. I
uant to see how much they grow In
15 or 20 years.” But he had no in
terest In the young pines, and he was
not at all'thinking of them as he
strode hurriedly up the stony sunken
wood road. He Was thinking of
Martha. Out of nowhere there had
come to him the recollection of say
ing good-by to her at the station. He
had kissed her good-by, and as clearly
at though he had Juat now stooped
to her. he could remember that the
very instant their lips met he had
been wondering if he would have time
to get down to the office before Mr.
Gilman came In from Chicago, lie
^ ?Sntcd Gilman's support for his
■rhrni" ter follow the shifting center
of supply with a branch office In the
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gull states. Were the figures he
wanted tiled under L lor Louisiana
or Y for yellow pine?
He sat on a fallen log. looking hack
down towards the valley and found
that far beneath him lay the sun
burned, flat, upper pasture where In
his Junior year he had practised so
fiercely to learn how to punt. He
cast a glance of heart sick envy back
at the sweating anxious hoy who
could conceive of nothing worse in
life than to have a kick blocked. How
lucky kids were, only they didn't
know it. never for a moment to
dream of such a heavy burden of ob
scure misery as that which now sick
ened his heart.
When he finally rose to his feet,
stiff and lame with his long im
mobility, he had constructed a new
little world in which to live, different
from what he had foreseen but toler
able, probably all that could be ex
pected by any one who had an honest
mind. At least It was constructed on
things exactly as they were.
These were the foundations and
boundaries or his new world; a pro
found doubt as to whether any one
outside of books is ever in love as
men and women are traditionally sup
posed to be; a certainty that with his
deep affection for Martha, his re
spect for he|-, his liking for all her
ways, he could make her happy
. . . happy enough ;
and be happy with her ... as
happy as any one in this world was
likely to be; the probability that a
normal healthy man married to' a
young and comely woman would fall
in love with her sufiiciently at least
to satisfy any conception she would
be likely to have of love, sufficiently
to satisfy what any honest open
eyed man had a right to expect from
love; a guc-ss that in the long run
such a marriage would be more to hi9
taste (possibly also to Martha’s) than
a more absorbing, exciting union. It
would certainly be all right for Mar
tha if they had children. The point
was that lie could do infinitely more
for her. advance and succeed and
triumph, unelngged by too much per
sonal life. Ho did not, he decided,
looking back over his life, seem to he
the sort of man who really cared
much for personal life. He never
had. His few tentative steps towards
it had always made him miserable, a
fish out of water. What he really did
care for, what he had always liked
when he got it, was a chance to use
his strength and wits In competition
with other men. Wasn't that after
all the real business of life? Wasn’t
that after all what women wanted
of, men? That was at the bottom of
the marriages he saw about, him. In
the homes of the older men where he
occasionally was asked to dinner. He
could give Martha all they gave to
their apparently quite satisfied wives
. . . and more, much more!
because Martha, was such a
dear, dear girl.
And that was enough! Enough for
any one! He did not feel very light
hearted, it is true. Hut life evidently
was not a very light hearted business.
And he was no grlmmacing, God'sln
His-Heaven, professional optimist.
You took what was coming to -you.
And what was coming to him was
plenty good enough for anybody.
The thought of father and mother
knocked at the door, but lie turned
the key In the lock, and started down
the mountain to his grandfather, the
most promising young business man
who had ever entered the employ of
the Gates Lumber Company.
CHAPTER XXXIV
Martha came Into the room with
a little rush as though she had been
waiting Impatiently to s<-o Neale, and
yet when she saw him she gave a
little quavering "oh!" as of fright,
and stood stock-still near the door.
Neale, conscious of nothing out his
own heavy heart, was so startled that
he had for an instant the fantastic
not (on that his mountain colloquy
with himself was perhaps written on
his face, and that Martha had rend
It at a glance. Hut before he i ould
move, she had moved herself and
come towards him as swiftly is she
had first entered the room She
spoke swiftly too, as though she were
afraid of losing her breath before
she could say what she had to say:
and yet she had already lost her
breath, and was panting.
"Neale, dear, dear Neale
her voice was quavering and very
low, "I must tell you quickly. Neale,
I'm afraid I've done you a great
wrong. Neale. I love you better
than any one I ever saw. but' her
voice sank so low Neale could scarce
ly hear her, "I don't want to marry
you."
Her lips began to tremble. She
hung her head, and Neale could see
the dark red Hooding up to the roots
of her hair.
Tie was for a moment literally in
capable of speech. She went on
falteringly. "Out in Cleveland, at Mar
garet's wedding you know, everybody
talking about getting married, and
Margaret . . . she’s like my sister
. . . we're so near each other . . .
and we talked. She was Just going to
be married, and she thought I was,
too. And f thought so. Truly,
Neale, I'd never dreamed of anything
else. And she talked to me as one
woman about to be married talks to
another—not girls' talk."
She began to pry a little now,
though she made a great effort to
control herself, drawing long, long
breaths, and halting between her
words, trying to bring them out
quietly, "Neale, l'm afraid you won't
understand. T don't know how to tell
you, l don't know how to tell you!
You see I never knew my mother and
T never liked to talk intimately with
other girls about . . . about . . .
but Margaret is so fine and——"
She cried out what she had to say In
one burst, in a loud voice of pain.
"Oh, Neale, when I saw Margaret
with her lover I knew, f knew, I’d
never loved you at all. I knew I'd
hate you If we were married.”
She turned away and leaned against
the wall, sobbing, her face hidden in
the crook of her arm. “What's the
matter with me!” she cried desperate
ly. brokenly. "Why don't I? Am I
different from other women? I can't
bear to hurt you so: I want to love
you' What can I do with myself if
I don't?"
(Continued In The Morning Ben.)
Adele Garrison
“My Husband's Love"
Why Madge Determined to Help
Katie Kind Jim.
All the truculence and excitement
vanished from the demeanor of the
woman across the road at my threat
to take her back to the village "lock
up" If she made any trouble for the
young trooper in charge of her home.
She pressed her baby closer to her
and spoke softly.
"I make no troubles me, no." Then
still in the same soft tone, she queried
slyly. “Clean oop? Eet so dirty."
She indicated the tubs of mash and
soaked floor boards, and 1 realized
that her furtive brain was still cast
ing about for a way to destroy the
evidence of her illicit whisky making.
"Is There Anything Left?”
T took her arm in a firm grasp—
and spoke with extreme sternness:
“If you touch one thing around
here without this man says so he
will tell me and I will take you back.
There Is nothing for you to do In
the kitchen. Your children have had
a big supper. You stay in here with
them and leave the kitchen alone.”
“All right,” she replied meekly,
and I knew that because I had been
able to secure her release, she looked
upon me as tho temporary arbiter
of life and death to her. But before
T turned away I caught tho eager
look she cast upon the table which
Katie was clearing, and I spoke
quickly:
"la there anything left, Katie?"
"Not mooch of stew,” Katie said
dubiously. “Nice plate of soup, und
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some breed und milk. Vy? You
vant eet for her?"
She jerked her head toward the
woman I had brought in.
“Of course. She lias had no
dinner—have you?" I turned to the
woman.
She shook her head.
"X vant make no troubles," she said
slowly, but there was no heart in her
words, and I suspected she was
voraciously hungry.
"She vant something else beside
eats." Katie declared. "She vant
her coffee. I fex queeck. Vare you
keep eet?"
She shot the question at the wom
an, who replied in Katie's native
tongue.
"A!! right, I fecx," Katie's familiar
slogan sounded cheeringly, and
while Katherine and I consulted in
a low tone about the needs of the
little family, Katie took coffee from
a dilapidated can In a cupboard be
hind tho stove and brewed a concoc
tion as unlike the amber beverage
which she serves us each morning
as could well lie imagined. It was
almost hlack. hut the women seize.!
the cup containing It ami drank
every drop.
Kiltie Is Inflexible.
“She like eet black." Katie com
mented, evidently feeling that some
explanation whh necessary. 'She
all right, now. I shove on her plate
und In her cup all food vets left,
und den I beat eet back home. Dot
old vomans. she rernly for crazy
house eef We don't feenish dose two
rooms tonight."
I took the hint promptly.
“Mrs. Biekett and l will let you
carry the things back," 1 said, “and
then we won't have to take Mrs.
Ticer away from the cleaning
again."
“Dot will lie goot," Katie said with
a satisfied air as she preceded us
home.
With a parting injunction from
Katherine to the mother concerning
the care of the baby, she and I left
the unhappy young trooper In
charge of the family and made our
way hack home.
“Not that my advice alHiut the
baby will do the slightest bit of
good, but It relieved my mind to my
it," Katherine commented cynically
as we walked up the pat'll to our
door. "They violate every law of
correct feeding and living and yet
pine knots are weaklings compared to*
them.
"That's because all the weak ones
die." I returned Idly and then we
were in the kitchen, with Katies
troubled face confronting us
"Dot Jeem he no back yet Missis
Graham." she said accusingly. "I
promise I no go after heem if you
room, but now you bark, I no prom
ise any more. I going after my man.”
There was a dignified inflexibility
of purpose about the girl, which for
bade any dissent. I turned to Kath
erine with sudden decision.
"Will you please look after the
dinner, Katherine?" I queried. "I'm
going with Katie to find Jim.
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